Our college Placement Cell plays a vital role in influencing student’s future careers. Our placement cell keeps track of job openings and conducts campus recruiting interviews for final year students, and also coordinates to provide internship for pre-final year students. The faculty of VCP plan ahead of time for all type of interviews and provide students with training on resume-writing, communication skills and interview that are so vital to excel in interviews.
Career Opportunities
The field of Pharmacy has progressed by leaps and bounds and is today a branch of science in its own right. Some of the factors that make Pharmacy an evergreen sector include:
- Chronic health problems are on the rise all over the world and this means a greater demand for qualified and trained pharmacists to work in the healthcare industry
- As the pharmaceutical industry expands, there is an increasing demand for trained industrial pharmacists
- Pharmaceutical companies from across the world are increasingly looking towards India as a source of intelligent, scientifically qualified and trained manpower and outsourcing their clinical research projects to contract research organizations in India. This means a greater number of job opportunities in the clinical research industry for trained pharmacists.
- As personalized medicine based on the principles of pharmacogenomics begins gaining a strong foothold, there is bound to be a greater demand for pharmacists in a clinical and hospital setting.
Career Options
Some of the career options available to pharmacy professionals include:
- Industrial Pharmacy – production, quality assurance, quality control, documentation, research and development and regulatory affairs in manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutraceuticals and herbal drug industry
- Hospital or Clinical Pharmacy – providing healthcare in a clinical setting
- Community Pharmacy – retail sales of drugs along with patient counselling activities
- Marketing – promotional activities that involve interaction with doctors
- Academics – teaching, research, higher education, medical writing
Companies
Several big players in the pharmaceutical industry such as Novo-Nordisk, Merck, Glenmark, Sanofi, Zuventus, Albert David, Cipla and Sami Labs visit the college campus regularly to fill vacancies in their manufacturing, sales and research departments. Several reputed retail pharmacy chains such as Apollo Pharmacy, Trust and MedPlus also regularly hire from our college.
